"Christmas specials of ""All Star Family Fortunes"" have aired as well. The most iconic aspects of the show are the large computer screen, named ""Mr Babbage"" by original host Bob Monkhouse and the famous computerised ""Eh-uhh"" sound used when wrong answers are given. Both were originally designed to appear high-tech but have since become fondly regarded for being quite the opposite (as compared to the original US ""Feud"", which has used a video board since its 1999 revival). The computer screen name ""Mr Babbage"" was in recognition to the English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept"
"of a programmable computer, Charles Babbage. Two family teams, each with five members, are asked to guess the results of surveys, in which 100 people would be asked open ended questions (e.g. ""we asked 100 people to name something associated with the country Wales"" or ""we asked 100 people to name a breed of dog""). Although rarely acknowledged in the show, the 100 people surveyed are invariably audience members who have volunteered before the show. Each round begins with a member of each family (in rotation, meaning all players do this at least once) approaching the podium. As the question"
"Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Considered by some to be a ""father of the computer"", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's analytical engine. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as ""pre-eminent"" among the many polymaths of his century. Parts of Babbage's incomplete"
"he'd done some really interesting stuff with a laptop and payphones and that cracked it for me, because it made it cinematic"". The character Eugene Belford uses Babbage as a pseudonym at the end of the film, a reference to Charles Babbage, an inventor of an early form of the computer. The fictional computer mainframe named the ""Gibson"" is a homage to cyberpunk author William Gibson and originator of the term ""Cyberspace"", first in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome and later in his 1984 book Neuromancer. The cast spent three weeks getting to know each other and learning how"
"a large electronic board, known as ""Mr. Babbage"", which famously sounds a wrong answer ""Eh-uhh"" sound effect and its accompanying X to signal the strike, as well as a ""ding"" (for a right answer). ""Family Fortunes"" was first hosted by comedian Bob Monkhouse (1980–83) then by singer and entertainer Max Bygraves (1983–85). After being rested for the whole of 1986, the show returned on 27 June 1987 with Les Dennis as presenter, and had a consistently successful run for the next 15 years. It was then moved out of peak time and became a daily daytime show hosted by Andy"
"a Fellow of the BCS and a Chartered Engineer. Swade is a Visiting Professor in the History of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow in Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. He appeared in the ""In Our Time"" program on Ada Lovelace, a collaborator with Charles Babbage, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. Swade was awarded an MBE for services to the history of computing in the UK New Year Honours 2009 list. Since 2010 he has been involved with the Plan 28 project to understand whether Babbage's Analytical"
"Benjamin Herschel Babbage Benjamin Herschel Babbage (6 August 1815 – 22 October 1878) was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name ""B. Herschel Babbage"" and was frequently referred to as ""Herschel Babbage"". Babbage was born in London, the eldest son of Charles Babbage, the renowned Cambridge mathematician who originated the concept of a programmable computer, and Georgina Whitmore. His uncle on his mother's side was William Wolryche-Whitmore, an MP in the House of Commons who lobbied for the formation of South Australia and introduced"
"Babbage also took up the anti-hoop-rolling campaign. He blamed hoop-rolling boys for driving their iron hoops under horses' legs, with the result that the rider is thrown and very often the horse breaks a leg. Babbage achieved a certain notoriety in this matter, being denounced in debate in Commons in 1864 for ""commencing a crusade against the popular game of tip-cat and the trundling of hoops."" Babbage's machines were among the first mechanical computers. That they were not actually completed was largely because of funding problems and clashes of personality, most notably with Airy, the Astronomer Royal. Babbage directed the"
"The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer is a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua. It features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in an alternative universe where they have successfully built an analytical engine and use it to ""fight crime"". The book was published simultaneously by Pantheon Books in the US and Penguin Books in the UK on April 21, 2015. It has received positive reviews and awards. The book grew out of a webcomic of the same name. The comic began"
"Doron Swade Doron Swade MBE is a museum curator and author, specialising in the history of computing. He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine. Swade was originally from South Africa. He has studied electronics engineering, history, machine intelligence, philosophy of science and physics at a number of universities including the University of Cape Town, University of Cambridge, and University College London (UCL). He holds a BSc in physics and electronics engineering, an MSc in control engineering, and a PhD in the history of computing from UCL. He has been a"
"was the first true representation of what is the modern computer. Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) is credited as the pioneer of computer programming and is regarded as a mathematical genius, a result of the mathematically heavy tutoring regimen her mother assigned to her as a young girl. Lovelace began working with Charles Babbage as an assistant while Babbage was working on his “Analytical Engine”, the first mechanical computer. During her work with Babbage, Ada Lovelace became the designer of the first computer algorithm, which had the ability to compute Bernoulli numbers. Moreover, Lovelace’s work with Babbage resulted in her"
"found in many publications related to design and some technology museums. In addition, the computer has been featured in other forms of media. The G4 Cube was used as a prop on shows such as ""Absolutely Fabulous"", ""The Drew Carey Show"", ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", ""Dark Angel"" , ""The Gilmore Girls"" and ""24"". The computer was parodied in ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Mypods and Boomsticks."" The Cube is also seen in films such as ""Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"", ""40 Days and 40 Nights"", ""About a Boy"", ""August"" and ""The Royal Tenenbaums"". In William Gibson's 2003 novel ""Pattern Recognition"", the character"
"Charles Babbage Institute The Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935. The institute is named for Charles Babbage, the nineteenth-century English inventor of the programmable computer. The Institute is located in Elmer L. Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to holding important historical archives, in paper and electronic form, its staff of historians and archivists conduct and publish historical and archival research that promotes the study of the history"
"Engine was a feasible computer based on Babbage's work, and to build a simulation. Swade has written the following books: Charles Babbage, 'Irascible Genius,' and the First Computer http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/42 Doron Swade Doron Swade MBE is a museum curator and author, specialising in the history of computing. He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine. Swade was originally from South Africa. He has studied electronics engineering, history, machine intelligence, philosophy of science and physics at a number of universities including the University of Cape Town, University of Cambridge, and University College London"
"of buildings, on Larcom Street, Charles Babbage, the Victorian mechanical computer pioneer, was born in 1791 although the original house has been demolished. A blue plaque records his birth. On 25 March 2013, a fire seriously damaged the Walworth Town Hall. The collections suffered only a very small loss, but the museum galleries were very severely affected. Around 98% of objects on display at the time of the fire were recovered and are now safely stored awaiting a solution to the display of the collections and public access to them. Cuming Museum The Cuming Museum in Walworth Road, within the"
"the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, mechanical precursors of the modern computer. Babbage spent his youth in Totnes and studied at King Edward VI Grammar School there. There is a Study Centre at the rear of the building which contains an archive of Totnes-related material - books, fiches, transcripts, photographs, and local newspapers from 1860 - of particular interest to those seeking information on Totnes history, buildings and their own family connections in the area. Experienced researchers are on hand to help on Thursdays and Fridays. Totnes Museum Totnes Museum (aka Totnes Elizabethan House Museum) is a local museum in"
"to discuss the areas of research in which we were all interested"". And that ""I remember his skill on the billiard table, particularly with strokes played behind his back; before the war he had repeatedly beaten me at squash and tennis"". Dennis Babbage Dennis William Babbage (26 April 1909 – 9 June 1991) was an English mathematician associated with Magdalene College, Cambridge, and with codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II. In 1980 Babbage was President of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He attended St Paul’s School, and then Magdalene College from 1927. He wrote 12 papers between 1931 and 1938"
"Crime Computer, presumably because his job required him to be at the wax museum at all times. However, Walt would sometimes join the climactic battle with his comrades in some episodes and come to the rescue when needed. The Squad had their own customized black Monster Van, and each monster had a ""utility belt"" with a communicator device used to keep in touch with Walt, who had apparently created them for the monsters to use. Their CB-style code-names were ""Chamber of Horrors"" (Walt), ""Nightflyer"" (Drac), ""Green Machine"" (Frank) and ""Furball"" (Bruce). The show was comparable to the 1960s ""Batman"" TV"
"Dennis Babbage Dennis William Babbage (26 April 1909 – 9 June 1991) was an English mathematician associated with Magdalene College, Cambridge, and with codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II. In 1980 Babbage was President of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He attended St Paul’s School, and then Magdalene College from 1927. He wrote 12 papers between 1931 and 1938 on algebraic geometry, and was associated with Professor H. F. Baker. He had a research fellowship in 1933, then a fellowship in 1936. Postwar he was made a tutor in 1946, and a senior tutor in 1964. He was a distant"
"desktop calculator available, and was silent and quick. The tube technology was superseded in June 1963 by the U.S. manufactured Friden EC-130, which had an all-transistor design, a stack of four 13-digit numbers displayed on a CRT, and introduced reverse Polish notation (RPN). Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the ""father of the computer"", he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century. After working on his revolutionary difference engine, designed to aid in navigational calculations, in 1833 he realized that a much more general design,"
"accurately identify all five of the wrong answers (in a similar vein to the American game show ""Trivia Trap"") by placing a fictional £200,000 on each answer. If at any time the contestant chose the correct answer, the game ended, but they got £500 for each wrong answer. If the contestant accurately picked all five wrong answers (and thus, losing a million quid), they won £5,000. The set of the show resembled an Art Deco cruise ship. The show is briefly featured in the film ""Shallow Grave"", with Ewan McGregor watching it on television and calling out segments of the"
"house the Institute. In 1989, CBI became an organized research unit of the University. Charles Babbage Institute The Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935. The institute is named for Charles Babbage, the nineteenth-century English inventor of the programmable computer. The Institute is located in Elmer L. Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to holding important historical archives, in paper and electronic form, its staff of historians and archivists"
"and Babbage"" was nominated for the Eisner Award in the Best Graphic Album–New category, and Padua in the Best Writer/Artist category. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer is a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua. It features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in an alternative universe where they have successfully built an analytical engine and use it to ""fight crime"". The book was published simultaneously by Pantheon Books in the US and Penguin Books in the UK on April 21, 2015."
"The Telebugs The Telebugs is a cartoon from the 1980s about the adventures of three robots with televisions for heads. The robots' names are C.H.I.P. (Coordinated Hexadecimal Information Processor), S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. (Solar Activated Micro Automated Non-inTerference Hearing Apparatus) and B.U.G. (Binary Unmanned Gamma camera) - who were accompanied by a flying video pack called M.I.C. (Mobile Independent Camera). They were invented by Professor Brainstrain (who is also known as Pwofessor Bwainstwain, owing to his unfortunate speech impediment) to stop enemies such as Baron Bullybyte, Magna, Angel Brain, Z.U.D.O (Zero-failure Universal Data Optimizer) Bug and Arcadia, whilst working as reporters for a"
"Batcomputer The Batcomputer is the fictional computer system used by comic book superhero Batman. It is located in the Batcave. The Batcomputer is usually portrayed as a powerful supercomputer on par with the cutting edge of the field. As real-world technology has progressed, the fictional portrayal of the Batcomputer has evolved. The machine began as a punch-card computer and is currently portrayed as a quantum supercomputer. The Batcomputer often acts as a plot device or tool for exposition. In the """" storyline, Jason Todd uses the computer to deduce the identity of his mother. The 1966 Adam West TV series"
"was ever released on VHS, except for these two episodes. The Telebugs The Telebugs is a cartoon from the 1980s about the adventures of three robots with televisions for heads. The robots' names are C.H.I.P. (Coordinated Hexadecimal Information Processor), S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. (Solar Activated Micro Automated Non-inTerference Hearing Apparatus) and B.U.G. (Binary Unmanned Gamma camera) - who were accompanied by a flying video pack called M.I.C. (Mobile Independent Camera). They were invented by Professor Brainstrain (who is also known as Pwofessor Bwainstwain, owing to his unfortunate speech impediment) to stop enemies such as Baron Bullybyte, Magna, Angel Brain, Z.U.D.O (Zero-failure Universal Data"
"the Science Museum, London, returning results to 31 digits. Nine years later, in 2000, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine. The Science Museum has constructed two Difference Engines according to Babbage's plans for the Difference Engine No 2. One is owned by the museum. The other, owned by the technology multimillionaire Nathan Myhrvold, went on exhibition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on 10 May 2008. The two models that have been constructed are not replicas; Myhrvold's engine is the first design by Babbage, and the Science Museum's is a"
"curator at the Science Museum in London, England, and the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, California, United States. At the Science Museum, he curated the computing and electronics collections and rose to be Assistant Director and Head of Collections. His major project at the museum was to organise the construction of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, in collaboration with Dr Allan Bromley who studied Babbage's original drawings at the Science Museum. In 1989, Swade was a co-founder of the Computer Conservation Society, a specialist group of the British Computer Society (BCS), with regular meetings at the Science Museum. He is"
"January 4, 1916. His family tree has been traced back to Charles Babbage (1791-1871), an English Polymath credited with inventing the first computer. Babbage's grandfather, Charles Whitmore Babbage, took the family to New Zealand where Gordon Babbage was born. His uncle, Eden Herschel Babbage (1844-1924) was considered the ""father of Roseville,"" of which Babbage Road in Roseville is named, and served as manager of the Bank of Australasia. After a troubled youth, Babbage went on to earn a Masters degree by the age of 20 before traveling to London, England to pursue his PhD in theology. His thesis was on"
"method was used to replace the missing Soul with an artificial soul known as ""Necroware."" It can be upgraded like a computer program, though the corpses are unable to speak, feel or think for themselves. By the 19th century, the use of corpses becomes more common as Necroware is improved daily via a machine known as Charles Babbage in which Corpse Engineers have access to. John Watson, an aspiring corpse engineer, illegally creates his own Necroware and resurrects his deceased friend who he renames Friday. M, a member of British Secret service, makes a deal with Watson after catching him:"
"Charles Babbage have actually built an analytical engine and use it to ""fight crime"" at Queen Victoria's request. In April 2015, the comic was published as a 320-page book titled ""The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage"" by Pantheon Books. The comic is based on thorough research on the biographies and correspondence between Babbage and Lovelace, as well as other bits of early Victoriana, which is then twisted for humorous effect. It began as a one-shot for Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The comic was the source of a limited edition print"
"A215 begins as Walworth Road, which runs between Elephant and Castle and Camberwell Road. It runs through Walworth and is the major shopping street of the area. East Street Market is especially busy on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Other attractions include the Cuming Museum, Newington Reference Library and ""John Smith House"", a former Labour Party headquarters which is now used by the local education authority. Charles Babbage, the Victorian mathematician and computer pioneer, was probably born at 44 Crosby Row, now Larcom Street, Walworth Road on 26 December 1791. A commemorative blue plaque is displayed on the Sexual Health Clinic"
"and speech synthesis, image enhancement, social engineering, and even computer dating. The series prominently features a variety of computer equipment from the 1970s and 1980s that act as props in the show. Some of these machines include, a Gavilan portable computer, a Heath Hero robot kit, an Apple II, an Apple IIe, a Dynalogic Hyperion, an IMSAI PCS 80/30, an Enigma Machine, Commodore ""PET"" series (in a classroom of the kids' school), an IBM 3279 terminal painted in black (pilot episode) and a TRS-80 Model 100. Several pioneer companies of the personal computer industry were listed in the credits as"